Lloyd Alexander Quotes

'Believe what you like. You'll be surprised how comforting it is.''I ask no comfort,' Taran replied, 'but the truth, be it harsh or happy.'

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• A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.

  

  Umera Ahmad
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• Robots are good at things that are structured.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Good
  • Things
  • Robots

• Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Power
  • Guys
  • Fine

• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Diplomacy
  • Candor

• I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Forever

• I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Never
  • Before
  • Wrote

• Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.

  

  Warren G
  • Work
  • Brother
  • Chance

• Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Help
  • Think
  • Key

• Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Defeat
  • Wants
  • Defending

• In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Time
  • Singing
  • Persistence

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me.

  

  Irving Stone
  • School
  • Stop
  • Design

• I am honoured to have been chosen for an Amitabh Bachchan film.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Film
  • Chosen
  • Honoured

• Notting Hill is a very different carnival from anywhere else. This is an international city, so it represents everybody. You walk around every corner here, you'll hear something new. It's awesome.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Different
  • City
  • Awesome

• I have a few homes, and Los Angeles is certainly one of them.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Los Angeles
  • Certainly
  • Los

• It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.

  

  Victor Francis Hess
  • May
  • Earth
  • Question

• My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • People
  • Work
  • Hope

• Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Little
  • Come
  • Enlightenment

• When I listen to my own records, I always think, 'Oh, I could have sung that so much better.' But you have to finish something and turn it in. If I didn't have folks who say, 'Come on, we need the record now,' I probably would never finish one.

  

  Patty Loveless

• Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • History
  • House

• We are too quickly losing important landscapes in this country to development - and I worry that if we do not act to protect them now, future generations will grow up in a profoundly different world.

  

  Louis Bacon
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• Commit yourself to quality from day one... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

  

  Mark McCormack
  • Quality

• With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Food
  • Wife
  • Confidence

• 'Believe what you like. You'll be surprised how comforting it is.''I ask no comfort,' Taran replied, 'but the truth, be it harsh or happy.'

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Happy